- "93% cos that are successful abandon original strategy"
Ie successful co don't have perfect strategy, they have cash left after original strategy to pivot
- Good money, bad money theory
- Before you've found viable strategy: patience with growth, impatience with profits
- Vice versa once you've found strategy
- "Ignoring investment in new business until new source of revenue or profit is needed means that you're too late"
- Understand your capabilities
- What you can and cannot do
- Resources, process and priorities
- Resources are what you use, processes is how you use and priorities is why
- "End goal of culture is to become a self managing company"
- Begin by Know what matters and then engineer it
- Culture is shared learning and a way of working
- Culture happens whether you are want it or not
- "If you require a machine and don't buy it, you will find over time that you have paid for it and don't have it." - Henry Ford
- Full v/s Marginal thinking paradox
- "If you didn't have a business how would you proceed?" mindset
- Purpose
- Likeness (sketch of what you want org to be at the end of the journey)
- Commitment